On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:11:05 +0200
Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote:
>> So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or
>> any other volume, in units of "gigabytes", which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
>> understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the
>> hard disk manufacturers' phony units which are seven percent smaller,
>> WITHOUT EVEN TELLING YOU THIS,
>
> I think you probably have a strange definition of "just about
> everybody". In reality, I think that just about nobody cares about
> gigabytes being 2^30, or 1000000000. This is basically splitting
> hairs, which "wishlist" perfectly fits.
$ bc <<< "scale=6 ; (2^40) / (10^12)"
1.099511
The difference between a binary and decimal terabyte is ten percent, or
one hundred gigabytes.
I would have thought that a lot of people would care about that, but
maybe I'm just strange.
$ bc <<< "scale=6 ; (2^30) / (10^9)"
1.073741
$ bc <<< "scale=6 ; (2^20) / (10^6)"
1.048576
Clearly the hard disk manufacturers care about differences of even five
and seven percent, or they wouldn't have been deliberately ripping
people off for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Legal_disputes
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